Guidelines for Field Hygiene
The Bat Specialist Group OneHealth Working Group has published guidelines and recommendations for field hygiene for all people who do fieldwork with bats anywhere in the world. They update our previous guidelines that were developed specifically to address bat-related fieldwork during the Covid-19 pandemic.
These guidelines address "ordinary" circumstances and aim to minimize the risk of pathogen transmission in all directions - humans to bats, bats to humans, and between bat species or populations, facilitated by humans. These guidelines exist as much to protect bat populations as the humans who study them. |
Personal protective equipment (PPE) to be worn during fieldwork with bats.
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Now available in French! Thank you to Alexa Sadier, Palamanga Parfait Thiombiano, Malik Oedin for assisting with the translation!
Shapiro, J.T., Phelps, K., Racey, P. , Vicente, A., Viquez-R, L., Walsh, A., Weinberg, M. and Kingston, T. 2024. IUCN SSC BSG Guidelines For Field Hygiene. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12169384
